firefox_setup.exe

DownloadManager.exe

Optimum Installer

This adware bundler is distributed through Adknowledge's advertising supported software managers. The application firefox_setup.exe, “Firefox Setup ” by Optimum Installer has been detected as adware by 31 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Adknowledge Fusion installer. With this installer, users are expecting to download the free Mozilla Firefox web browser but before that occurs they may be presented with additional offers, mostly potentially unwanted software or adware.

File name:

firefox_setup.exe

Publisher:

ADK Apps (signed by Optimum Installer)

Product:

DownloadManager.exe

Description:

Firefox Setup

Version:

2.1.13

MD5:

6843156509b895ff3aef589ef75b8976

SHA-1:

50499d24834f15eb353e6dbdecea9d5afacedf20

SHA-256:

b3bfdfc55badfe41611de679b9814a1033398692932d30f43f7f5c3a71eac2b1

Analysis

Scanner detections:

31 / 68

Status:

Adware

Explanation:

This installer bundles various adware prorgams that may include toolbars and web browser advertising injectors/extensions.

Description:

This is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

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